THE L1IDDLEEDRGH FOST.
GEO. W, WAGEXSELLER,
Editor and Proprietor
Middlebiboh, Pa., JrLT 22, 1897.
Texas produces oue-third of the
American cotton crop and Las bat
three cotton mills.
In France, if a person dies with
more debts than can be covered by his
estate, the doctor's bill has prece
dence over all other claims.
Philadelphia is a veritable Eden, at
least to the street car traveler. One
road at least runs its curs every min
ute, and limits the passengers to the
uumber of seats.
Sir Walter Besant estimntes that the
living descendants of the pilgrim
fathers in the United States number
about 15,000, although not 10,000, he
thinks, know the relationship.
The supreme court of Georgia has
recently declared that when a man
has reached sixty-eight years of age
ho is "n aged man" in the eyes of
the law. The law thus snips off four
years from the allotted span of three
score years and ten.
Speaker Gully of the British House
of Commons, has just cast his decid
ing rote for the first time since as
suming office, there being a tie vote'
for the second reuding of an
unimportant bill. It is thirty years
since the speaker lias voted.
According to the latest statistics
published by the Mexican govern
ment, the populution of the city of
Mexico at the end of 189(3 numbered
a.10,0'.i8. Tho death rate during the
year, exclusive of infants ftill-boru,
wus 47 per 1000 of tho population.
Queen Victoria wears the same stnte
bonnet for several seusons. It is a
ponderous velvet afl'uir with snowy
plumes, and the shape has not been
changedi n twenty-five years. As a
rule women buy new huts when the
style changes ; men when their hats
tire worn out.
Swiss children are obliged to attend
school six to eight years, fines being
imposed on their parents in case of
unexcused absence. But as many
parents are too poor to provide food
and clothing for their children not a
tan. ,.t t., !,,. .. J . .. I, t..
provide assistance, and it is estimated
that last year 40,000 children were
thus aided bv the state.
The National Educational association
lias decided in favor of reformed spell
ing to the extent of 12 wards, and in the
reports of the proceedings of the asso
ciation hereafter the simplified spell
ings will be employed. The depart
ment of superintendence of the nsso
ciution voted to submit the selection of
the amended spellings to n commit
tee of three, of which lr. 'William T.
Harris, United States Commissioner of
Education, was chairman, and the com
mittee decided on the following list of
wards : Tho (though) ; catalog (cat
alogue); program (programme).; deca
log (decalogue) ; thorn (thorough) ;
attho (although) ; thorofare (thor
oughfare).; thru (through); turnout
(throughout) ; prolog (prologue).;
demagog (demagogue) ; pedagog
(pedagogue).
The 'bicycle has probably done move
to develop the mechanical genins of
the people -iif today than any other
agency, remarks the Washington Star.
With lb e old wheel, the ordinary, while
a rejiuir kit was carried, it was seldom
needed, for tho whole machine was
built for wear, weighing two uud three
times as much as tho modern safety,
and having tires .almost uubreukable.
The only danger was from a loosened
tire. Later on the narrow tire uud
theu the cushion tire came in, each
requiring more care, and with them
enme the sprockets, chains aifd adjust
able saddles and haudlo bars that re
quired some skill to manipulate. But
it was with the advent of the eighteen
to tweuty-one-pound pneumatic that
skill was really called for, and today it
is hard to find aa owner of a wheel
who is unable to take his machine
apart, or who does not thoroughly
understand its make-up. Good evi
dence of this is to be had at any of the
cyclo shows, or even in the regular
sales rooms. At the former it is a
common sight to see a crowd around
some new model, every one man or
woman, young or old seemingly pos
sessed of accurate knowledge and ca
pable of weighing carefully the advan
tage offered by each particular make.
The Rerlaed Version.
The fin do sleclo lover puts It tuns:
"I love the very fcrouud Miss Bloom
er bikes over." Trifles.
NOT TO BE MENDED . AGAIN.
Ton eaa take a plane of china that's bean broken by tho maid.
And can put the thlnff togethet If too know the mender's trade;
You can mend tho thing so neatly that no one will ever know
That it has o'er been shattered by aa nnoonsldered blow.
Too eaa take a heart that's broken by soma small flirtatious ffirl.
And can mend tho fractured pieces till they're smooth as any pearl,
, Av, say that that heart's possessor (eels as sturdy as an oak.
And forgets that e'er it happened that his heart was ever "broke."
You can fall from a bicycle and make pieces of your nose;
You can break your collar-bone, or you oaa fracture all your toes:
You can crush your arm in splinters; you can smash your either leg,
And a doctor be will Ox It till it's whole as any egg.
You can smash an ocean record, but that record still Is there,
You may break a trotting record with a rapid little mare.
And leave the old one standing just as wholo, quite as complete,
As when it sent the jockeys a-huzzaing through the street.
Hut alas! it you are angry, and have angry words to say,
Beware a broken silence, or you'll surely rue the day. 4
For a silence that is broken, by the women or the men, 1
Is a thing that can't be mended, oan't be rendered whole again.
g The Cavern ok Plies.
ERA CRUZ,
Mexico, June 21
A t F e c o h,
State of Yuca
tan, and at other
places in that
State, the
has been
soured for
cral days
sun
clouds of flics, which came from the
interior couutry. The New York Sun.
Is this the proof of the story told
by the late General Jo O. Shelby, the
Confederate who never surrendered,
but who, nevertheless, died United
States Marshal for the Western Dis
trict of Missouri? Has the Cavern of
Flies broken loose?
It as near this same Fecoh, ac
cording to the General's story, that
Walter Andrews Bahster, formerly
living near Kansas City, Mo., won a
fortune by entering tho famous Cavern
of r lies.
The Cavern of Flies is one of the
most wonderful and, at the same time,
one of the most hideous places in the
world.
Balister's adventure, in daring and
inexpressible terror, is not exceeded
by the most extravagant flights of lie
tion. Tho memory of his experience
undoubtedly wore upon Balistcr's
mind, for he packed up six years ago
and left Ins home, saying:
"I am going to Greenland, whero it
is too cold for flies."
It is not kuown in what year he
went to lueatan. By a strange whim
of fortune this tall, thin youth, from
the district of Missouri, where the
James boys had their haunts, found
himself shipping from ow Orleans as
one of a party to explore the ancient
ruins of lueatun.
When he returned to Jackson Conn
ty in 1880 his old friends did not know
him. His fuco and hands wore cov
ered with countless tiny blue spots, as
if he had been tattooed, lie had
plenty of jnoney, although he went
froin the Missouri hills with nothing
except tne six-sliooter in his liiii poc
ket. He built a fine honse. Each window
of tho house was provided with firm
wire netting. A summer house in the
grounds was built, enmeshed entirely
with netting. When asked why he
used all this expousive wire netting,
Balister replied, gruffly:
"To keep out flies!"
Soon his black servants told a
straugo story. Their master's chief
requirement was that they should let
no flies into the house. If he heard
one buzzing, every person in the
house was ordered to kill that fly, to
do nothing until the fly was killed.
One day Balister found a black boy
asleep with a fly perched on his nose.
He struck tho boy a blow that all but
killed him!
It was too near the big up-to-date
town of Kansas City for black boys to
bo struck down by their masters,
hence Balister was arrested for assault
with intent to kill.
He declared he aimed at the fly, not
the boy. This excuse was considered
a bit of grim humor.
It was this circumstance that led
the strange man to tell to the late
General J. O. Shelby the story of the
"Cavern of Flies." General Shelby
told the story several times in con
vivial moments.
Burster's father was one of my
bravest soldiers," said General Shelby,
"and rode to Mexico w ith me rather
thnu surrender to the Yankees. I met
young Balister, but never asked him
what made his face blue. Gentlemen,
that man was blue nil over! When he
was charged with trying to kill the
boy, he said to me:
" 'General, it is no joke I did aim
at the Ayr
"Then he told me the story which,
he said, had never passed his lips be
fore, it was so painful for him to tell.
"It seems that somewhere in the in
terior of Yucatan, near Fecoh, two of
the expedition, accompanied by Balis
ter, found a lot of ruins covered by
forest trees. An immense hill of lava
attracted them, and it was around the
hill they found these ruins.
"Among the peculiar features of an
ancient temple was an underground
tunnel, which, by observation, they
found to lead into the hill of lava rock.
"In their efforts to follow this tun
nel the party was driven back by
swarms of flies! The walls and ceiling
of the passage were covered with a
species of flies which puzzled the ex
plorers. They had never seen any
flies of that sort in that land of flies.
"Determined to solve the mystery
of the underground passage, the party
covered their faces and hands with
cloths and pushed resolutely on
through ever-increasing clouds of flies.
As they went further the ancient air
grew warmer and moist, and an intol
erable odor assailed them. They were
driven back.
"The next day they tried again, and
were rewarded by signs of light. En'
couraged by the light, they fought
through the swarms of insects and en
tered what seemed the crater of an ex
tinct volcano. The terrible smell was
from masses of flies underfoot Warm
fumes still arose from the rocks,
High above them were the apertures
inrougu which came tlie daylight.
" 'It is a burial place! exclaimed
tne explorers.
"Balister knew nothincr of the' de
light of unearthing tho traces of ex
tinct nations, his business was to man
age mules, but he was filled with won
der to behold rows upon rows of erect
skeletons along tho walls. The bones
of the mysterious dead were covered
with flies.
"The next discovery was that the
arms and ankles of the skeletons were
decorated with bracelets. Pendants
hung from grisly necks upon empty
rios nni uiapuragms!
"It was Balister who cried, 'They
aro gold!'
"Almost blinded by tho attacks of
insects, the men began to wrest tho
treasure from tho spectres of au un
kuown past.
"Balister knocked grinning skulls
of queens and nobles from their shoul
ders and strung his arms with rich
necklaces of virgin gold.
"Then arose a sound like the gib
bering of ten thousand fiends.
"Frightened and hulf running for
tne nioutn of the tunnel, the men re
alized that it was not tho angry inur
murings of the ghosts of a forgotten
race, but the uprising of countless
millions and billions of flios!
"The swarms blotted out the rifts of
daylight. The torches were extin
guished, and the men fell upon their
luces to escape the attack.
"Then, joining hands, they sought
to find the tunnel through which they
had entered. The pests got nuder
their clothes, under the cloths over
their faces, and they were bitten ,in a
thousand places.
. iTt 1 ' i
jjuusier said nis companions
screamed with agony!
"They groped along the sides of the
cavern, but everywhere their frantic
hands felt notLiug but tho bony legs
oi me iieau.
"Balister, gentlemen, was not a fat,
spectacled scientist. He was a strong,
fearless young man of the stuff that
nover surrendered. Yet he said that
ho felt his mind melting like a snow
ball in an oven. He wanted to scream
and gibber!
"But, observe Missouri instinct all
this time he clung to his booty!
"He does not know how long tho
three men struggled in that avalanche
of insects that choked them, that bit
tuom in tho gullet even as they were
swnllowod.
"Balister lost hold of his com
panions, lueir screams, he said,
sounded mutlled in the angry ronr of
the myriads of flies which were eating
them alive!
''Almost ready to fall and have his
bones picked, Balister, by Missouri
instinct, drew his guu and began to
shoot!
"Although shooting at flies 'was
mere madness, Balister said that the
act of shooting saved his sanity. It
was statural au act lor a Missouriau.
gentlemen!
"'I yelled,' Balister said to me.
'when I saw, by the flashes, tho mouth
of the tunnel!'
" 'Come ou!' he shouted to his com
panions, shooting as he rau and stum
bled through tho tunnel. The flies
pursued him every step.
"He plunged into the court of the
ruined temple, threw down his booty.
and there tore off his clothes aud
brushed from his flesh the flies that
clung like leeches. He was bluck
with them, black and red for the
blood ran iu streams.
"Running to the cnmi ho smeared
himself with ointment.
"So engrossed was Balister with his
own torments that he did not, for the
time, think of his employers.
"Gentlemen, they never came out!"
"Balister assured me on his honor
that he went back the whole length of
the tunnel, in vain, thinking he might
find them lying there unconscious.
"He told me he remained among
the ruins several days. He couldn't
sleep because, at night, he thought he
heard screams in the tunnel.
"Once he screwed up his courage to
go to the mouth of the passage and
call when he heard the screams. He
said ho thought he hoard mocking
laughter in reply.
"BaliBter concluded that the Mexi
can authorities would laugh at his
story, shoot him as a murderer and
take his gold.'
"Possessed with this idea, he hid
the gold in. the pack saddles of his
mules and made his way to the coast
withont attempting to find the rest of
the expedition, which searched vainly
tor me men wno were eaten aive.
" 'I am perfectly sane,' he told me.
lint T k... hA nf iw
New York Journal.
. "SCOTTIE" WAS REVENCED.
Sara TtapaMt Far Duped lata
"Coonlnt" aa Imaginary Log.
"I flayed a trick on one of the cow
boys wo called 'Scot tie, said tne ex
oowbwT. "But he got even with me
in good shape, we were on the round'
np, and within two days' drive of
Raton, bat 'Scottie couldn't stand it
any longer, so he struck off for town
early in the morning to fill np. We
didn't see anything of him till night.
After the cattle had been bedded and
the night herders stationed he came
into camp maudlin drunk. The boys
began to tease him about being drunk,
bat he swore that he was perfectly
sober, aud offered to bet that he could
walk a scratch.
"I noticed just then that the moon
cast my shadow like a log across the
creek. I said, 'bcottie, 1 11 bet you
can't walk across the creek on this
log.' Scottie looked at it a moment
rather dubiously, then said: 'I don't
know as I can walk it, but I'll bet I
can coon it.' 'All right,' I said, 'coon
it.'
"So he got down on all fours to
'coon it, and, of course crawled splash
into tho teek. The boys set up a
howl. He rrambled out, spluttering
and cussing, pretty well sobered and
swearing that he would 'get even with
the kid for that trick.' And he did.
"I had in my string of cow ponie3
the meanest broncho in New Mexico.
No matter how often I rode him he
had to have his pitch-out every time
he was saddled. I made it a point to
got off before tho rest of the boys were
ready to start. Failing in that, I
waited until they were out of tho way,
Oiie morning, nearly two years after
'Scottie' had 'cooned' the log, I
saddled up and mounted. The broncho
put his head down to buck. I jerked
him up sharply, and the bridle bit
broke and let the bridle off over his
head. Then ho began to pitch and
run right toward a barbed wire fence
"I heard 'ScottieV voice say 'I
catch hiin for you.' Then his luriat
whizzed by my head and caught the
horso around tho neck. I glanced
over my shoulder and saw 'Scottie' set
his horse back. It camo over mo in
an instant that lie was going to throw
my horse aud 'get even' with me. So
I jerked my foet out of the stirrnps
and got ready to fall. I landed about
thirty feet nway, flat ou my back.
After tho boys had brought nio around,
examined me aud found me all there
and no harm done, 'Scottio' turned to
one of the boys and snld: 'I told you I
would get even with the kid.' Chi
cago Times-Herald.
Moving Hospitals.
The railway hospital car is the latest
novelty in foreign railroading. Iu the
event of a serious accident, those cars
can be run to the place of tho disaster,
whero the injured may be picked up
and carried to the nearest large 'city
for treatment instead of being left to
pass long hours at some wayside station
whilo awaiting' surgical attendance.
It also enables the railway compauies
at certain seasons or upon special oc
casions to transport large numbers of
invalids to health resorts or places of
pilgrimage. The interior of the car is
divided into a main compartment, a
corridor on one side aud two small
rooms at the end. The largest com
partment is the hospital proper; it
contains twenty-four isolated beds.
Lach patient lies in front of two little
windows. Each bod is provided with
a movable table, and a cord serves to
hold all tho various small objects
which the patient may require. The
corridors on the outside lead to tho
linon closet and the doctor's apart
ment. Various trap doors in tho floor,
when opened, disclose to view nn ice
chest, n compartment for tho disinfec
tion of soiled linen, and a provision
cellar. If necessary, a portion of the
hospital chamber may be transformed
into an operating room for urgent
cases. Finally, as customary abroad,
a small chapel for religious worship is
provided. This car will be put in
charge of a surgeon and nurses, and
will be chiefly used to carry invalids
from Belgium direct to the health re
sorts of France.
They Do Not Marry Young.
The average age at which people in
England marry has stoadily risen for
a good many years. Sir Brydges
Henniker, Registrar General for Eng
land and Wales, has only now com
pleted his detailed rcportfor 181(3, and
he states that the mean ages of those
who entered wedlock in that year were
about twenty-eight and a half years
for men and slightly over twenty-six
years for women. These figures, how
ever, include the ages' of widowers
and widows who re-enter the matri
monial estate, and who ought properly
to be excluded from the calculation,
for the average ago of widowers who
ro-marry is over forty-four, while that
of widows is forty. If, therefore,
we deal only with the case of baohelors
and spinsters, we find that the mean
ages on marriage are twenty-six and a
half and twenty-five respectively. The
number of under-age marriages regis
tered in 1895 was the lowest recorded
for between forty and fifty years.
Crime la Italy.
Ill Italy only half of the criminals
escape detection accordiug to Signor
Farriana, who has written a book on
"Clever and Fortunate Criminals."
He asserts that while 0000 crimes
whose authors were not detected were
committed in France t in 1825, the
yearly number of such crimes is now
80,000. 1
A Kuinlnn Army Scandal.
Russian artillery officers stationed
at Otchahoff, on the Dnieper, have
been deteoted in selling large quanti
ties of gunpowder aud other stores to
Odessa junk dealers.
IF WE ONLY KNEW.
Ah! sisters. If we only kaew each grief
That rends the other, we could never bate.
Nor even think remorse could ooma toe
lata,
Ro she brought with her a more kind belief.
Moot farely prejudice Is a fool thief
Who steals love's blossom through the
very gate
Which we would shut against him. It Is
fte - , . -
That bands which might extend us sweet
relief
Tress down upon Its thorns our coronet.
And when we sob tor water reach us gall.
And when our hearts ache thrust out
sides with soora.
Oh, women, women! do ye then forget
How all must stumble, though some only
fall?
How ye might stay with hope the feet
forlorn?
Amelie Elves.
PITH AND POINT.
"Give a poor fellow a lift," solilo
quized the burglar, and he lifted a
dozen diamond rings. Washington
Capital.
Lady "Where is my trunk?" Por
ter "I couldn't find any trunk, mum,
but I've got the handle with the label
on." Standard.
Freshman "What makes you think
these eggs were stolen?" Clubmate
"You can see yourself they've been
poached." Princeton Tiger.
Doctor "Your friend shows some
improvement." Patient's Friend
"Does he?" Doctor "Yes; ho ad
mits that he's a crank." Puck.
Wife "How people gaze at my new
dress. I presume they wonder if I've
been shopping iu Paris." Husband
"More likely they wonder if I've been
robbing a bank. "Tit-Bits.
Hanim "From the very first time
I went upon the stage my aim has been
a high one." Tom Mentor "Yes,
I've always noticed that you invariably
played to the gallery." Boston Trans
cript. "What does that man Slickly do for
a living?" "For board and lodging
he does the hotels, aud for clothes
does his tailor. Outside of that he
does the best he can." Detroit Free
Press.
Chambermaid "Last evening Mon
sieur took me for his wife." Cook
"Ah! He kissed you, I suppose?"
"Not in the least! Ho called me names
and made a terrible scene." Le
Figaro.
"I guess there's something tho
matter with our rubber-tree, "observed
the small boy, "I've been watching
it for a yeur or two now, and it
hasn't sprouted any overshoes yet."
Harper's Bazar.
Mr. Bedford "I believo in reci
procity in underwear." Mr. Webster
"What do you mean by that?" Mr.
Bedford "Stick to your winter flan
nels until they stick to you." Pitts
burg Chronicle-Telegraph.
The Judge "Didn't I tell you tho
last time that you were here that I
wanted to see your face in this court
no more?" Weary Watkius "Yon
did. yeronner. and that is exactly -wot
I tole the cop." Indianapolis Jour
nal.
Telescope Proprietor "Step up,
ladies and gents, and view the planet
Mars. One penny, mum." OldLady
"Oh, lawl Hain't it round and
smooth?" Telescope Proprietor
"Will the bald-headed gent please step
away from in front of the instrument?"
London Tit-Bits.
Husband "Dearest Mathilde, I
have made up my mind to grant all
your wishes. ' You shall go to the
mountains six weeks, you shall have a
new dress, and the parlor shall be sup
plied with new rococo furniture."
Wife "Oh, Charles! What havejou
been doing?" Fliegendo Blatter.
"Mercy!" cried Mr. Barker at the
restaurant. "Waiter, is this Neuf-
chatel cheese?" "Yes, sir," said tho
waiter. "Well. I must sov it tastes
like very old chatel cheese. Bring mo
some cottacre cheese instead, and be
sure it is mudo of some cottage since
the original Queen Anno period.
Harper's Bazar.
Importation of German Hirda.
In the years 1889 and 1892 a society
in Portland, Oregon, introduced 400
pairs of song birds from Germany into
that State at au expense of little more
than $2000. Of those tho plain and
blackhended nightingales have prob
able become extinct, because few of
them survived the long trip, aud none
lias since been seen, but tho other
species have multiplied with great
rapidity, especially the skylorks,which
rear from two to four broods every
year, so that the whole Williamette
Valley, from Portland to Roseburg, is
lull of them. Besides theso there are
black starlings, wood larks, song
thrushes, black thrushes, goldfinches,
chaffinches, ziskins, gi'eenfiiiches,bull
finches, crossbeaks, robin redbreasts,
linnets, singing quails, goldhammcrs
aud forest fiuchers. When it is re
membered that the insects and fungus
diseases most dangerous to our vege
tation are those which have been im
ported into this country from abroad,
aud that animals and birds which are
held in check by some balance of forces
in their native land often become a
nuisance in a foreign country, just as
rabbits have been in Australia and
English sparrow in this country, it is
possible that some of these songsters
may prove injurious to crops. The
chances are, however, that they M ill
do more to help the farmer by keeping
insects in check than they will to in
jure them. Detroit Free Press.
Chinese Idea of Justice.
A German missionary named Elwin
recently delivered a lecture at Shanghai
in which he stated that the Chinese be
lieve that "justice" will be adminis
tered in the next world very much as
it is in this that is, chiefly by means
of bribery, and., that consequently it
happens occasionally that one of two
litigants oommits suicide with a view
to getting at the judge in the other
world before his rival. ,
PRKCNANT THOUCMTc. r-,..
WORLD'S CREATFC.T t,Z
--7 ' "wihCR
Jaae and Jnly-Cllmb l p ta rod
f rrtlw-Tr..t God for j.:S
The, That Sow Maat Reap,,.'?'
After thrlat-What Ton io, i. j'
June, with sunshine In her er.
Faaged her hand acron the skiw
Then, with archly smiling llr
Blew upon her nnger-tips. '
Hoon the air grew wondrous
Overhead, aud under feet
Under feot, and overhead
Trooped the rosea, white and i.
Trooped the roaea-erimso,,. whii'.
T nk ,nd yellow, Pal,.ad btlX"
Till they perfumed earth and air
Roses, roses, everywhere. '
Wearied then, she shook her head
And the petals, white and red
All the petals crimson, white'
Pink and yellow, pale and brleht
Fluttered slowly, softly down
To the border of her gown.
Half dismayed to see them' fall
Quick she turned to leave them aji
Looking back to say good-bv '
8ho met the warm ,'Iuhm i ..
-Anna J. Orannls, iu Congregational
Climb I'n to n.i
Byron makes the Illustrious lv,,i
dig-footholds in the walla o f h , 2'
inouutnlim of hla nnHr h-i.... . "P.""
weary years ho had been couiln.'d ii. .i.
(iv toiiid hear o
waters ripple day and nlKht. Thevform M
aa it nrerH. a awnnd nrla.,n ..,n '"nul!
a bard anna at the nriunn m l.i.'.-'., "'I
est sons lie bad ever heard, it r-urrj
for a look over the land which v,J
the bird. 80 the prisoner due f,.otl,0,u t
the plaster of the wall and climbed to 11
window above. He lookod out and b
the mountains unchanK"d. n tav
"""" v. luuuMiiu .vrnrs and lfrn
patlenee. That look putnewliln into hH
and irave him n vIhImi, il.ut . 1
the end. From that siht ho obtained nil
"p..., . .i.aii ii, null!) in, .J
(loci that I niHv t'nt fimi'11 vid ,
be forever consoled by the slijlit (Jf
vuiiik Kiauu nuu iumut oevond tllig i'J
in which I am now as In a prison. I mni
m u u n k"uiisb ui mti lowering pi'atj
Immortality. 1 am cutting foothol.u t,
my fuith in the promines of lod, i.nd i hat
no tlmo for ease, and I want no !. ji
iov of hik;Ii work fa far lutt.r !.,.. .....
" . .1,1,11 r,m
Want not rlnh livlni 1 mt nni.- n ,.!
-David Gregg, L. 1)., in "Tho iiwJ
Tomorrow hath a rare, allurlns siiund;
Today is very prose; nud yet the twain
Are but oue vision soun through alter
eyes.
Our dreams Inhabit one; our s;ress J
8urj?e through tho other. Heaven it n
today
Made lovely with tomorrow's iwc, for av.
l.lcuard liurtou, in Ceuturj.
A Some of 1'riilna,
0 thou who art our Futhnr.
our hearts in a psalm of KratltudeuutuuW.
We thank theo for the great Mints sod
roes wnose names are nuuseuold words, ic
also for the unnumbered und unnamed tt
with common talents hnvo done ureat
vice for mankind, whoso holy lifo thoa had
blessed for all the world. V praise the.
lorinu prayers, ine ion?, mo team, it
blood, the manly and womanly eodeavi.i
whereby the wilderness him been ma,l i.
blossom us tho rose, and the great viotorM
of mankind have been achieved furui. A
remember our own lives before thee, ihJ
lines oi our lot cast iu this haant land
and we ask that we may faithfully do ever.'
auty wnieu tne age demunds of us. Inher
itiug so much from times unst. uul.'kened tv
the In.Hpiration'of great meu, and mill ut.rJ
reeling thee a presence ever near to ourl
heart, we pray thee that there, may be ivi
religiousness or soul within tis that we sh,
make every day a Lord's day, awl all ou
work n great sacrament of communion wit.
thy spirit. So may thy kingdom eomeul
thy will be done on earth as it h iu beavec.!
Amen,
From thee Is all that soothes the life
man
His high endeavor and his glad su'ws,
His strength to suffer arid his will to w.
lint O, thou bounteous Giver of all good.
Thou art of nil thy gifts thvself th erown'
(jive what tuou canst, without theo w aj
poor,
And with thee rich, take what thouw
away.
Cowjier.
Truat Clod for Kuril I;iy.
Todny is ours. Tomorrow is not oif.
Wo need, aud we can hnvo, streuirui at
support for our duties of tod.iy. These ir
promised to every child of tiod who aits
and trusts. There is no promise for tt
needs and responsibilities of tomorrow. I..
that duy we may never come. That Jr
may never come to us. ir we do o r ani
today that is all that Ood requires of us. Id
we neglect today s duties our lire is so i.
a failure, and we must answer to (khi h
this neglect. Faithfulness in our day i
high attainment. Being anxious (or to
morrow displeases God aud unfits us lv'
His service. Only by ll.lolily in Map
duties can wo make wiwi preparation '01
tomorrow. When the children of lsra'l
tho wilderness attempted to lay up "I v
(Iuv'h mmin.L for tomorrow's food, tli'lf ',:
was a failure. When they w"r v.illiai! '
trust God for each day by Itself, li ls Ml"
provision for them was ample. Tims M
all of us. There is dally strength for daily
needs; such strength is sullicicut lor
cauh and all. S. a. Times.
Tliev Tlmt Sow Must IU'iip.
Our doeds have an Inescapable rcaVt H
nuetmoj what we doholps to mato us
wo urn. All mie uwlvltloH Loth man""
character und shape character: 'l'"' "j
never trivial. You think, perhaps. lu"Sv'
mav do many tilings now which you wiIIk'I
do by-nnd-by, and that these, will l'"" 'l
fennanvnt result In your future cjuiu j
t is a dangerous mistake. .Many i
ninn li,H.,lna t,(,tlf in "vlUH'
outs," and forgets that every sowing H
Its harvest. They that sow in wiuu ":
the whirlwind. The sins of youth r
aeeda nf mnnv a vriMrrviia hiirvest re&P u
i... 1 ....nltiL'ira.i
um ku wiiu remorse uuu umn" . j
I'hlllp 8. Moxom, V.V., in lheAua
Mie.
If this great world of Joy and pals
Bevolve In one sure track:
If freedom, sot, will rise atfiln.
And virtue, flown, come back:
Woe to the purblind crew who 1111
The heart with each day's care;
Nor guln. from past or future,
To bear and W forbear! k
-William Wordswor
Tha Humblest Arc Inalritnirnti.
All history boars witness that ' 21
means to mako a great man n r,u'.."l (ft
?umstanoes,of the world and the uwj
le.er men under tribute, lie no"
uia nero use an auronie oui ui .
earnest, pure, unselilsh, falthf il Bto
have livod their obsoure liv.' w '
helped to make him. A tlKeisana ,
eorded patriots have helped t" m
iukioii; a inousunu lovers
iributod to Lluooln.-l,hlllps Broot
Where light dwells pleasure dwells, .
And peace excefst i
Then rise and shin.
Thou shadowed soul ofj mine! -rMt
(. brutim w